writing legalities Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/writing-legalities/ Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:29:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-WBP-FAVICON_7-32x32.jpg writing legalities Archives - Words by a Pro https://old.wordsbyapro.com/tag/writing-legalities/ 32 32 Is It Libel, or Just Free Speech? https://old.wordsbyapro.com/is-it-libel-or-just-free-speech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-it-libel-or-just-free-speech Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:21:02 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1036 It may not have escaped your notice that Americans like to sue each other. One of our great modern thinkers, “Weird Al” Yankovic, even wrote a song about it (in part: “I’ll sue ya, I’ll take all your money / I’ll sue ya, if you even look at me funny!”). One thing that really gets […]

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]]> The Law Is Mightier than the Pen: Staying Out of Copyright Trouble https://old.wordsbyapro.com/the-law-is-mightier-than-the-pen-staying-out-of-copyright-trouble/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-law-is-mightier-than-the-pen-staying-out-of-copyright-trouble Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:28:15 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=949 A time-honored practice in writing is…let’s call it “borrowing.” You see someone else’s clever turn of phrase, a few words that perfectly describe what you’re trying to convey, a zinger pun, and you decide to use it in your own writing. Maybe you change the words around to fit your situation, or maybe you don’t, […]

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